Installers Didn't Work
Jan 14, 2008
I recently had a problem with my computer so I boot up my recovery cd. Soon everything was working fine and I installed some programs that I used to have. However, a few days ago, everything went weird again. (But in a different way before I used the recovery cd.)All the installers didn't work. They all had errors halfway through. They created empty folders in the program files and they can't be removed. Most things in the program files now can't be removed. I also can't install some other programs and the error messages were something like I didn't have access. But I was on the administrator account. I'm sure the installers weren't corrupted because one of them was the iTunes installer.. When even that couldn't be installed,
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Jan 1, 2008
About ten days ago my Acer Aspire E360 (AMD 64 X2 3800, 2gb - Win Media Center 2005) started giving BSOD errors at startup. It would to into safe mode but no trouble shooting worked. Finally it wouldn't boot at all giving me the: NTLDR missing error. I downloaded the ISO that 'fixes' this error and it didn't work, saying that hal.dll was missing. My recovery disks - 6 in all - are available but when I booted from them they said that it would erase the entire C drive. In the meantime I downloaded ISOs to test the disk and the memory. Disk was fine, but there was one very bad memory stick, which I've replaced.
I don't want to lose the C: data. I did do an Acronis 10 backup just before it went totally down, but I'm not sure that the bad memory stick didn't corrupt data that's now backed up. A friend gave me a copy of a WinXP Pro (without serial number) to see if I could use the repair function. However, he only copied the files and did not clone the disk so it's not bootable. Using another computer I used Nero (Caldera DOS) to make a bootable disk. Unfortunately when I tried to boot up with it I got a warning: "EMM386 - address line A20 already enabled." and then it froze.
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Jun 19, 2005
I installed the Battlefield 2 demo about a week ago. When I tried to play it, it didn’t work. The read-me said I didn’t have the correct hardware configuration, so I decided that I didn’t want it anymore. When I went to uninstall it, a popup says: >">
>>SetupDLLSetupDLL.cpp (469)
>pAPP:Battlefield 2(TM) Demo
>PVENDORICE
>PGUID:88ECF123-B0EF-4E51-B7F3-923EFE15CC4A
>.50.0.125
>@Windows XP (2600) BT_OTHER 376.21...
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Feb 28, 2005
I am having a problem on one of my PCs at work where I run an installer and it never appears! I have run a full AV scan and a full spyware scan and also HJT. ALl turned up nothing. Any suggestions because I almost have no hair left
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Jul 3, 2008
I need some major help here... basically one time i shut down my computer and tried to turn it back on, and though it was working fine before, it wouldn't load Windows. The error message said that the System32 folder was corrupted. However, it luckily started working after I put in a Windows xp cd and "repaired" from the cd. after that everything seemed to be working fine except one thing
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Jan 12, 2007
I'm thinking about Re-formatting my computer. i seem to get a new pc every few months,lol, so i have never actually done it before. My current pc is a stor brought one and unfortunatley i didn't not get the Windows XP cd when i purchased it. for the Windows cd and was wondering if there are any other ways to Re-format my pc, i have hered about getting an OEM version of XP, will that be ok
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Feb 2, 2007
After re-installing Windows XP I am now locked out of Windows by a password which I didn't set!
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Aug 12, 2005
The Memory has been tested by PCClub and has passed the test this memory is new and fresh so nothing is wrong with the memory.What im thinking is that its the power supply because i didn't get the Power Supply my friend got the power supply at the Thirft Store (the name of it is what it is Thirft Store) now i didnt think it was messed up because it was in package and all wraped.I have some pictures but NOTE: The Pictures are when i was useing the CPU from a Compaq Presario so dont pay anything to that.
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Feb 22, 2008
I've bought a new notebook.The specifications you can see from my profile.
I've got an AMD Athlon 64X, X2 1.80GHz TK-55 Processor.
I've tryed to install the Windows XP SP2 64X Edition, at the setup Windows didn't install?!
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Oct 2, 2009
Folders were named "+stuff" and "++++junk" were accidentally deleted from my documents. didn't appear in the recycle bin can't be found to restore. Anyone heard of this being a known issue can the plus sign be used in folder names? I've tried to duplicate and can't. I can create new ones and delete and restore
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Jan 16, 2007
I just started my Dell the other day and as the subject says, it didn't boot and went to a blue screen which said something along the lines of.it gave me options to start in Safe mode and a few others or to start at the last point where everything was ok. I choose this option and windows started without a hitch and I didn;t notice anything out of place or missing. I've done a few restarts since then and nothing out of the ordinary has happened since.BUT, then today I was loading some more programs on my recently formatted laptop. One of them being Perfect Disk 8 (trial) and WinPatrol alerted me to the startup entries. One of them being PDEngine, the other PDAgent. I'm assuming Perfect Disk caused this error on the Dell. Anyone have any Idea as to what may have happened. now I'm afraid to use the program on either comp.
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May 19, 2007
I'm looking at a lap top for a friend. When it boots up, it starts normally and then on a black screen it says that windows did not start successfully. It gives a list of ways to boot up, safe mode safe mode with network, some others, then last known good config. None work. Which ever I try I then get a blue screen with "A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage. An attempt was make to write to read only memory." It then tells me if it's the first time I'm seeing the screen that I should reboot etc.
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Sep 17, 2006
I have a DELL with an OEM installation CD. I un-installed a crappy program which just corrupted the file ootmapi.dll. Now, when I try to boot, I get the message that "ootmapi.dll was not found, reinstalling the application may fix the problem". I have tried safe mode, last known good config, and even a live Windows CD I made through Bart PE (an amazing program). I have alot of information I NEED on my hard drive. I was about to back up my data-it seems as if computers decide to stop working at the worst possible time . Please post all possible solutions and a step by step guide to reinstalling windows through my Windows CD.
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Apr 26, 2006
After turning the computer on that my taskbar and desktop didn't appear. I went to Task Manager and used the "run" command and typed "explorer.exe" and try to load it up that way. It did load up, but the thing is, it blinked on, and then was turned off. Right now I'm using the Task manager to do everything I'm doing right now. I'm pretty sure that this is a virus, but I want to be completely sure.
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Oct 27, 2009
I was having problems with my computer and a BSOD that pointed to my hd. I decided to reinstall XP but then decided to try a repair first. The repair seems to work to an extent as pc starts fine now and seems to load normally etc. However upon starting I noticed the desktop had reverted back to default, my programs weren't listed in the start menu and favorites were gone. I was guessing that it wiped my hd like I had done a re-install. So I went to copy some of my backed up files but when I went into My Computer I see that all my files are still there under C:Documents&SettingsOwner like before. But also under Documents & Settings are these folders now.
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Feb 22, 2006
I have a problem with Windows XP. I didn't shut down the PC properly. After that when I switch it on, the windows progresses until the screen with blue button running right-left left-right for couple of seconds and then: black screen and nothing.I tried safe startup - it worked OK. I performed recovery to yesterday savepoint, but the result remains the same as above.
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May 19, 2008
Last year i bought a IBM laptop and they didnt provide any Window XP cd or any other CD and now my pc was infected by viruses which can't detected by any antivirus software. what i can see is that....my C drive is in Blue word and other folder in C drive are also in blue.
1) since i only have the genuine lisence key (attached behind my laptop), how should i format my laptop since IBM didnt provide any Windows Xp Cd
2) Why my C drive and some few folders in the C drive are name in "Blue"?
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Aug 24, 2008
I recently had to change my hdd for a new one before it crashes, installed XP with SP3 integrated, ran the intel motherboard cd and sound and internet connections were ok, didn't surf the web too long because i wanted to install the antivirus first.
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Jan 30, 2008
I recently reformatted my HP Pavilion laptop back to Windows XP. I didn't back the specs up, so now in the Device Manager, it has a lot of black exclamation marks in yellow circles. I installed Belarc onto it using a flash drive and this is what I got:....
HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T20N [CD-ROM drive]
SanDisk U3 Cruzer Micro USB Device [CD-ROM drive]
FUJITSU MHY2160BH [Hard drive] (160.04 GB) -- drive 0
SanDisk U3 Cruzer Micro USB Device (2.05 GB) -- drive 1 1984 Megabytes Installed Memory
Slot 'DIMM 1' has 1024 MB....
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Apr 25, 2008
I've just tried turning my computer on this morning and it's not quite working - I'm on a friends computer at the moment.I'm running window XP, I have recently had some help from the 'spyware, malware' section of this forum in removing some virus's and trojans, we managed to stop all the intial problems however now.When I turn the system on, it does it's first page fine (the one that has the system information) then goes to the screen that says "windows didn't start successfully, a recent hardware or software change might have caused this" and gives me the start up options of 'safe mode', safe mode with networking', 'safe mode with command prompt', 'start windows normally' and 'last known good configuration'. I've selected all the options once and they all do the same thing - once selected it goes to the windows xp screen and looks likes it's loading then a blue screen with some information on it pops up for a micro second, the system then restarts itself and goes back to the safe mode options screen.
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Mar 13, 2008
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Jun 19, 2005
I downloaded a program from Ebay and after installing it I noticed it didn't have a uninstall. I used my add & remove program to uninstall the program but not all of it got uninstalled. I deleted the folder and then did a search in my registry for anything with refernce to the programs name "Ebay's Blackthorne" and deleted all entries with that name.Every time I reboot windows tries to install something for Blackthorne and I have to keep cancelling it out.
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Nov 17, 2006
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Jul 11, 2010
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Jan 6, 2007
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Oct 24, 2008
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Jul 13, 2005
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Feb 14, 2006
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